With Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn now complete, hints of what the future holds for the business networking site are beginning to emerge. Yesterday, announcing the closing of the $26.2 billion acquisition, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner blogged publicly about a message he sent to employees. In it, he reassured them and customers and members…

What’s the condition of your organization’s culture? Every organization has one. From a small business to a multi-national, it’s got a culture. From a team to a department to a division to a region to a country, it’s got a culture. Usually the culture of a business happens by default, not by design….

Employees are hungry for clear feedback and they’re not getting it. This was one of the major findings from a study conducted by the authors of The 2020 Workplace. When employees were surveyed on the abilities they wanted most in their manager, getting “straight feedback” was the capability rated as the most lacking…

The end of 2016 is near, and for some of us, thank goodness! While we count down the seconds until the crystal ball drops, we can plan for the trends about to hit human resources departments. Keeping an eye on compliance will certainly be important over the next year. What happens with immigration,…

At the crossroads. “I have an offer on the table for the top role at a new company. Salary is double the current role. I am in that space as to what do I do next. When you mentioned earlier today in your presentation about being at the crossroads, that is where I…

Work martyrs are popping up in all industries. When you’re in an industry already known to be demanding, like medical sales, these martyrs could be ruining your reputation. This could scare high quality candidates away due to a higher rate of reported work-related stress. Having work martyrs in your office — people who…

It’s not human nature to welcome negative feedback. At best, people accept the comments, make changes for the better, but feel disappointed that they didn’t perform better the first time around. At worst, they disregard the feedback, become disengaged, and dislike the person who took the time to comment. So it’s no wonder…

Strong employee engagement is one of the most important assets of a successful company. Unfortunately, most businesses do not invest as much time and energy to make sure their employees are engaged. Typically, they will invest in other aspects of the business such as promotion and the brand loyalty of their customers, but overlook …

Editor’s note: Ron Thomas is on the road again. While he is traveling, TLNT is reposting some of his more popular columns. “I love this job. The work I do is so interesting and I am finally in a job that I am learning so much. My problem is that this manager of…

It’s hard to find a leader today who isn’t aggressively calling for growth and innovation within their organization and hasn’t clamored for more creative, original thinkers to make those goals a reality. But where do we find all this creative talent – and how do we harness it? Is the ability to be…

“I am really excited to announce a formal partnership between ERE Media and CompareMatch. For the majority of us in the recruiting industry it has been a historically frustrating exercise to determine which piece of HR Technology is better than the next and can effectively solve our needs. Michael Marlatt, the brains behind…

Personality has a huge impact in the workplace: from a first impression during the interview stage, to everyday interactions, to giving and receiving performance feedback. Every workplace and most teams have a variety of personality types, which means not everyone is going to respond to feedback in the same way. How they receive…

Bad things often happen when employees feel they have to resort to self-help… Retaliation lawsuits, for example. Tyshanna Nuness is our plaintiff in this case. Ms. Nuness alleges that she is a female African-American who worked for her former employer for about 14 months. During her employment, the plaintiff worked alongside a male Caucasian…

Change is never easy. Change and transition is a bumpy process. But why is change so hard? Change is hard because it is an emotional experience for most. An emotional experience, particularly an experience one often has little choice in being part of, creates resistance. Resistance is a natural emotion, though an emotion that can make change…

The New Year will bring greater work authorization flexibility for foreign workers and their employers. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Homeland Security published Retention of EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers, a final rule that modernizes the U.S. immigration system to help…

The skills gap is growing between candidates entering the workforce with a traditional college degree, and candidates recruiters are looking to hire. If your human resources team is concerned about this talent deficit, and can’t seem to find the right candidates, they might not be looking in the right places. As the demand…

Today’s top talent doesn’t place much value on the traditional workplace status symbols, like a corner office. Instead, skilled members of the modern workforce demand flexibility. According to a recent FlexJobs survey, only 7% of professionals cited their office as the best location for tackling work-related projects. Respondents named everything from distracting colleagues…

Observing that the U.S. healthcare has been rising at almost twice the rate of the national economy, Tim Coan told an audience of HR professionals, “This is simply not sustainable.” But the question is, ‘What have we done about it’.” Speaking at a DisruptHR meeting in Denver last year, Coan said it is…

TLNT's Editor: John Zappe

John Zappe is editor of TLNT.com and a contributing editor to its sister publication, ERE.net. He joined ERE Media in 2006 from the AIM Group, where he was a digital media sales trainer and employment branding and advertising advisor. Prior to that, John served as Vice President of Digital Media for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He's been a newspaper reporter and editor, winning multiple regional, state and national awards, including the Headliner Award. In 1995 he led a team that launched one of the first newspaper web sites in the nation.